The Dutchman

C     D   C


[Verse 1]
    C
The Dutchman's not the kind of man
C
  Who keeps his thumb jammed in the 
dam
Dm
  That holds his dreams in,
G                             
  But that's a secret that only 
  C               F  C
Margaret knows.

     C
When Amsterdam is golden in the 
summer,
C
  Margaret brings him breakfast,
Dm
  She believes him.
G                               C
  He thinks the tulips bloom beneath
 the snow.


[Pre-Chorus]
            Dm             G      
He's mad as he can be, but 
       C             Am
Margaret only sees that sometimes,
              Dm             
Sometimes she sees her unborn 
 G               F     C
children in his eyes.


[Chorus]
       F         G            C
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm          G      
Where the walls rise above the 
         C    Am
Zuider Zee.
      Dm    G            C        
Long ago, I used to be a young man
 Am

         Dm         G             
Now dear Margaret remembers that 
   C
for me.


{Instrumental]
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[Verse 2]
    C
The Dutchman still wears wooden 
shoes,
    C
His cap and coat are patched with 
the love
Dm
  That Margaret sewed there.
G                                 
  Sometimes he thinks he's still 
  C          F  C
in Rotterdam.

   C
He watches the tug-boats down canals
C                                 
  Calls out to them when he thinks
    Dm
 he knows the Captain.
G                                 
  Till Margaret comes to take him 
C
home again


[Pre-Chorus]
             Dm                 
Through unforgiving streets that 
 G                    C           
trip him, though she holds his 
  Am
arm,
    Dm                    G       
Sometimes he thinks he's alone and
              F     C
 he calls her name.


[Chorus]
       F         G            C  
Let us go to the banks of the 
    Am
ocean
          Dm          G      
Where the walls rise above the 
         C    Am
Zuider Zee.
      Dm    G            C        
Long ago, I used to be a young man
 Am

         Dm         G             
Now dear Margaret remembers that 
   F   C
for me.


{Instrumental]
C


[Verse 3]
    C
The windmills whirl the winter in
C
  She winds his muffler tighter
   Dm
As they sit in the kitchen.
G                              C
  Some tea with whiskey keeps away 
the dew.

   C
He sees her for a moment, calls her 
name out,
While she makes the bed up singing 
Dm
   some old love song,
G                                 
  A song Margaret learned when it 
    C
was very new.


[Pre-Chorus]
          Dm           G          
He hums a line or two,   they sing
   C             Am
 together in the dark.
             Dm              
The Dutchman falls asleep and 
 G                  F            C
Margaret blows the candle out.


[Chorus]
       F         G            C
Let us go to the banks of the ocean
          Dm          G      
Where the walls rise above the 
         C    Am
Zuider Zee.
      Dm    G            C        
Long ago, I used to be a young man
 Am

         Dm         G             
Now dear Margaret remembers that 
   F   C
for me.


[Chorus]
       F         G            C  
Let us go to the banks of the 
   Am
ocean
          Dm          G      
Where the walls rise above the 
         C    Am
Zuider Zee.
      Dm    G            C        
Long ago, I used to be a young man
 Am

         Dm         G             
Now dear Margaret remembers that 
   C
for me.


[Otro]
         Dm         G             
Now dear Margaret remembers that 
   F   C
for me.